Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 168
"Open the sack," cried Little Claus; "creep into it instead of me, and you will soon be there."
Who acts: you · What happens: open, cry, creep, be · To what, where: sack, Little, drover · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
| 2 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sack | det |
| 4 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Open | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Open | conj |
| 8 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Little | flat |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 creep | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 creep | punct |
| 12 | creep | creep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Open | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 creep | obl |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 me | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 creep | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 there | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 there | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 there | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 there | aux |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 there | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 there | cop |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Open | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the sack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | you not said here | Little | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | creep in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | drover | instead Great Claus = claus | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | you | soon, there property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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